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Mahmoud Darwish PALESTINE
Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian, is
one of the most admired and important Arab poets today. Over
forty years of writing more than thirty books of prose and
poems, he has influenced and innovated modern poetic forms. He
has received international recognition as a French Knight of
Belle Arts and Letters and in 2002, he was awarded the Lannan
Cultural Freedom prize. In 2005, he received the prestigious
Prins Claus award for poetic achievement from Holland, and in
2007 he received the Golden Wreath award of Macedonia. His
poetry and prose have been translated into more than twenty
languages. His most recent book in English is
The Butterfly’s Burden, from Copper Canyon Press. Also
in print in English are Unfortunately, It Was Paradise
and Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? Mahmoud
Darwish currently shares his residence between Ramallah,
Palestine and Amman, Jordan.
Translated by Fady Joudah : Fady Joudah is a physician of internal medicine. His poetry and translation have appeared in The New Yorker, POETRY, the Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, The Nation, among others and also in several anthologies. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s most recent poetry is collected in The Butterfly’s Burden from Copper Canyon Press. Marilyn Hacker says that “In the brilliant bilingual poet, Fady Joudah, Darwish has found a translator capable of rendering in English his unflinching, questing, and above all loving poems.”
Fady Joudah's first book, The
Earth in the Attic has received the Yale Series award from
Judge Louise Gluck.
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